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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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[Photo] Vaccine mandate takes effect for most students 16 and up

December 2, 2021
SPEECH: Avi Litvak campaigned for 11th-grade SAC rep on the junior class trip to Phoenix last Friday. The other three grades voted at school.

[Photo] Scottsdale student wins position on Fairness Committee in grade-level rep election

October 19, 2021
PROMOTE: Admissions officials used the constitution to explain the role of the Just Community in school life.

[Photo] Have you missed it? Just Community Constitution preamble to return to 2nd-floor lobby soon, officials say

April 11, 2021
SPACE: To accommodate the increased number of students on campus, the sides of the Rachel, Yaakov and Leah tents were rolled up to create one large space for davening.

[Photo] On-campus school expands to two days a week and two grades a day

February 13, 2021
EMPTY: Rabbi Lieberman taught his 10th grade Modern Jewish History class on-campus Dec. 22 to five students who were in-person and 15 students who were participating over Zoom. New Covid cases were just shy of 13,000 in Los Angeles County that day and rising.

[Photo] Covid tests will be required for all students who want to attend in-person next week

January 28, 2021
WET: Rain pummelled the rooftop turf March 12, 2020. The roof is now home to the Leah, Yaakov, Rachel, Avraham, and Sarah open-sided tents where Judaic Studies classes are held for those who want to learn on campus during Covid.

[Photo] In-person school may be cancelled this week — for rain

January 25, 2021
LIVE: Rabbi Abraham Lieberman taught 10th-grade Modern Jewish History Dec. 3 in the Sarah tent on the third-floor patio. According to a Nov. 27 Los Angeles “Health Officer Order, schools and day camps can remain open while following health protocols. Shalhevet has been having one grade per day meet iat school since Dec. 1.

[Photo] Medical Task Force works to steer school through changing Covid pandemic

December 17, 2020
CANCELED: Prospective students and their families arrived in the foyer Nov. 22 at the first of three Open Houses that had been scheduled for this admission season.

[Photo] School stays open but Open House is cancelled as Mayor Garcetti issues new orders to fight Covid-19

December 3, 2020
PAUSED: New tents in the parking lot last Thursday night waited for students who would have started on-campus Judaic Studies classes yesterday if not for a last-minute cancellation.

[Photo] Partial reopening of in-person school is cancelled after LA Covid cases spike

November 18, 2020
SUPPLIES: Sophomore Benjamin Gamson attended art class on Zoom Sept. 22 with materials provided by the Art department. When in-person classes were cancelled in March, art supplies were at school and teachers had to find ways to teach without them.

[Photo] Another first for Covid school: Art kits for everyone who’s taking art

September 25, 2020
DISCUSSION: David Edwards, last year’s Agenda Chair, led a Zoom Town Hall on May 13 about a proposed new Just Community Constitution.

[Photo] For now, Zoom Town Hall will be every other week

September 14, 2020
CAMP: Younger children at MJ Sports camp stayed together in small “pods” so in case someone became ill, only that pod would have to quarantine.

[Photo] For the Shalhevet building, spring vacation ended in summer

September 6, 2020
CHECK-IN: Mrs. Muriel Ohana, Assistant to the Head Of School, checked temperatures of students arriving for summer enrichment classes last month. Students arriving for Camp Firehawks and other activities should expect to have their temperature checked before entering the building.

[Photo] COVID 2.0: Online classes, after-school “camp” and Zoom shofar-blowing welcome new school year

August 25, 2020
MINCHA: An outdoor minyan observed strict social distancing March 18 in Hancock Park. Officials say that is not permitted in California or Los Angeles, although it will soon be allowed in New York.

[Photo] New York allowing minyans, Los Angeles not yet

May 21, 2020
SPREAD: A van belonging to Hatzolah, whose volunteers provide emergency response in Beverlywood, Hancock Park and other Jewish neighborhoods, was parked on Alta Vista Boulevard yesterday. The group said local Covid-19 patients had interacted widely before being diagnosed.

[Photo] YULA student tests positive for coronavirus after Bnei Akiva shabbaton; Rabbi Segal says spread to Shalhevet ‘inevitable’

March 16, 2020
EMPTY: On Thursday in Ms. Kongs ninth-grade geometry class, only 7 of 14 students showed up. Rabbi Segal had told parents in an email the night before that if they wanted their child to stay home as an extra precaution, it would “be considered an excused absence.”

[Photo] No on-campus classes next week as school joins accelerating shutdown of L.A. due to coronavirus

March 13, 2020
CROWDED: Students locked out of classrooms filled hallways during lunch Feb. 28. Complaints included no place to sit and difficulty concentrating and socializing due to a high noise level in the halls.

[Photo] Week of locked doors brings clean classrooms, loud hallways

March 3, 2020
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